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I got a nice Roswell gold plated one from newegg for abit cheaper.

This is a complete shit post. Raid depending on the CPU? -A raid is when you ether split or duplicate the sectors on your hard drive. It has nothing to do with your CPU. I made an estimate that the GPU gives me 10-20 more fps? -Learn how to measure properly in units. Measure the total fps of your CPU and GPU output separately is how you compare without guessing. A CPU will net at a 10-20 increase in FPS? -You cannot guess that without running a profiler on the game. Pulling stats from your a$$. If we include just Intel Processors? -Lets include the Intel i3-5005U with 2 cores and 2ghz. It's so weak you can't even play Skyrim.

I like my 50 foot hdmi cable to my from m tv better :) Got it for $30 off newegg. Got a nice 2.5k (1440p) resolution aswell. The i5-4590T isn't too bad though, I got the fx 8350 up on this graph. PassMark - Intel Core i5-4590T @ 2.00GHz - Price performance comparison

It not the name, it's the parts inside. Alienware is pay for the sticker. I could post the stronger parts for someone to build themselves. But Alienware activists would still say there's is better.

Linux just isn't there yet in terms of the graphical user interface. Both Mac and Linux lack of game support as well. I've used xp, vista, 7, 8, ubuntu, mint, gentoo, centos and a couple mac versions personally. Windows will do you perfectly fine honestly. You can run a disk cleanup after finishing updates. There's also the community winapp2.ini file for ccleaner to free up more gigabytes; Plus each steam game wastes about 5 to 15% of disk space which can be cleaned up as well. I freed 30gb/111gb of space using these. I would personally recommend windows 7 for six-nine months, then using your free ticket to upgrade to 10 when all the bugs are fixed. You will see notice a lot of improvements on 10 (which is an improved version of 8) in-terms of resource usage. Microsoft doesn't want to admit it, but they use tick-tock like method just Intel does. Much like the famous economic theory of using stages at a production plant, it works out significantly better. 2000 -new version, xp -polished, vista -new version, 7 -polished, 8 -new version, 10 -polished.

Most people will not need to buy a 1tb regular drive if they get a 500gb ssd. $220 goes directly toward speed, nothing else will make your loading times any faster these days. Etheir that you spend $170 (with your 256gb recommendation and 1tb hardrive) and only half your things load fast. Is the opportunity cost really worth saving $60? I don't think so. This is really basic economics, is sad most people cannot do it.

That's called an SSHD. Software automatically selects frequently used files and puts them in SSD space. It's not nearly as good as having all SSD space, but it's definitely better than your conventional drive. Windows being a pig, could still hinder load times of games on the same drive tho.

It's bigger waste to buy an SSD period, if you're not going to all your games on it. If you need more space than 500gb, a 1tb sshd would be a good addition. 1TB ssds are a complete troll though. It just means you don't know how to free up space properly. You can free up a good 50gb/500gb of space using disk cleanup and the community winapp2.ini for ccleaner. And put stupid things like torrent downloads which degrade the life of your ssd on sshd. Plus games you're only going to launch once or twice are fine on sshd.

An SSD is the single best item you can have in your PC. Pretty much anything which involves loading will be sped up tremendously. I'm always the first person to load when the map changes for instance. And my computer boots up in ten seconds. Pretty good build, but there's afew things i'm not a fan of. [*] The Kingston SSD has a higher defect rate than Intel for instance. [*] MSI isn't the best for video cards based on benchmarks of noise, cooling effectiveness and frequency speeds. (asus or his are my favorites) [*] The ram cost is excessively high and the i7 4790k isn't designed for faster than 1600. (you have 2133) Like gez, everyone has done this. Who ever looks here? "Memory Types DDR3 and DDR3L 1333/1600 at 1.5V" ARK | Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) [*] If you're going for an custom air cooler, it should be because the stock sounds like a rocket taking off. (silent design) Buying a bigger rocket generally isn't the best solution. Bigger fans generate less noise than smaller fans and are much stronger at cooling.

It's actually the complete opposite, most games relay more heavily on the CPU than the video card. The video card is just that component which takes what's processed and sends it to the screen. The CPU on the otherhand is the brain of your computer which does a lot of the work. The i7-4790k only has four cores and that extra ghz will make a difference on more complex games like Battlefield 4 or Natural Selection 2. A common issue you will run into on lower ghz is the first thread getting maxed out. It's really tempting when making a game to just put most of the things on the first thread, and create a few others to prevent overloading. In this scenario, 3.9ghz (4690k) vs 4.4ghz (4790k) will make a huge difference especially in the future. Edit: If you're looking for a more cost effective solution, the i5-5675C (3.6ghz) would about 1-2% be stronger and alot cheaper than the i7-4690k. (3.9ghz) It's on Intel's new broadwell architecture which is an improved version of Haswell in their tick-tock method of doing things. Plus the power usage saves you a dollar or so per year.

Your build has a few ineffectiveness, I will point them out bellow: The i7-4790k is significantly faster with a 4ghz base and 4.4ghz turbo. And can easily overclock to 4.8ghz on the water cooling solution you posted. The other option is the new i7-5775R (3.3ghz base or turbo 3.8ghz) which is on the new intel broadwell architecture. Don't be followed by the ghz, it benchmarks approximately 3-5% slower than the i7-4970k but guarantees support for 1886 ramn. A stronger built in video card (with 4k res support) is also included so people who play light games (no first person shooters) don't need to buy a dedicated one. The i7-4790k cannot support ram that fast. 1866 might be doable (even tho it says 1600). You got 2400 which is going to downclock and possibly perform worse due to higher cas latencies and timings. -$60 You can easily drop 150 watts on the power supply as even that's overkill. I'm willing to bet that build will use less than 450 watts with a i7-4790k 4.8ghz overclock.-$15 My mouse and keyboard costed $25 including taxes and shipping. Really decent for the gaming and fast typing. And isn't going to break nearly as quick. Three years now no issues. -$200 Logitech MK120 Wired USB Keyboard and Mouse - Black - Newegg.ca -300 reviews on this product, 74% are five star, 89% are four star or higher. You don't need that strong to achieve the 100% performance you're looking for. Think of it this way, you're running 1080p on the monitor you're going to get. The 980 is for 4k resolutions which has three times the pixels. The 970 is overkill for 1080p so you never have to worry about drops. (It's actually designed to run 1440p) I can confirm this statement as my video card (r9 270x) is half as powerful as the 970 and still holding max fps on ultra 1080p with a couple demanding settings tonned one notch down.

The i7-5960x is approximately 21.2% weaker than the i7-4790k for gaming and costs three times more. See this single threaded benchmark shown bellow. The i7-4790k is on the top by almost a full 200 points. (that's why they call it the devils cannon) PassMark CPU Benchmarks - Single Thread Performance The only thing more cores means is half of them never get used. And the ones that do get used, max out at your silly 3.5ghz instead of keeping free at 4.4ghz. #LovingDemCores That's why intel allows eight threads to execute on four cores, so never need more than four cores. You only need 16gb of ram if you're like myself with 20 tabs open in google chrome and two games running at once. More ram wouldn't make your computer go any faster, it will just stop the pagefile from being used if you try to overload the standard 8gb. (which is plenty with an optimized windows 8.1 that only uses 2gb) For $500 motherboards you're paying for the looks, not the performance. Half price ones can be considered top of the line. Mine was about $175 and it was a flagship board. (top of the line) p.s I could suggest a smart sexy build with 28 3.6ghz cores and 56 threads cores for a little over 150000kr. Dual e5-2697 v3 processors which are $2 500 USD a pop. Plus the $1 500 USD board. And four 1tb SSDs for raid 10 . (anther $2 000 USD) Still not done yet but #LovingDemCores

You only need a gtx 970 if you're going for a 1080p (1920 x 1080) at 60 hertz. The gtx 980 ti would be better suited for 1440p. (2560 x 1440) at 60 hertz. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Gaming G1 - Inet.se This benchmarks shows 60fps at 1080p on max settings, which is the maximum your monitor will be able to support. Bare in mind, simplistic games like tf2 will likely only use about 40-60% of the gtx 970's power, as any higher would be rendering frames that won't be used. Nvidia Maxwell Battlefield 4 And Thief Results Just you give you abit of a perspective, I got an r9 270x and am still holding 60fps at 1080p on source engine games. The gtx 970 is almost twice as powerful and has one of the highest performance per dollar ratings. PassMark - Radeon R9 270X - Price performance comparison Btw the devils cannon is the most powerful cpu for gaming, if you don't know that already. Nothing can beat the 4.4ghz single threaded turbo on a haswell architecture. Intel Core i7 4790K 4GHz, 8MB - Inet.se

Your games are stored on hard drive space, not ram. Ram (Random Access Memory) is just temporary fast access memory which is used while your computer is running. When you shutdown your computer, this is cleared entirely. (there is nothing left on it) It's then safe to replace your ram. Hopefully you've got it set up in dual channel so it's significantly faster. When you purchase ram, it almost always coming in packs of two for that reason. The intent is for you to place them both in the same colour slots. I'm as-suming you ether have corrupted sectors (ram went bad), or, less than 8gb of ram and needed more. As those are really the only valid reasons for replacing ram. @Rhododendron This chat filter is a piece of sh!t. There's lots of words which contain "a s s" as three constructive characters. It needs to filter if the exact string is found, or, if the string contains AND it's not a dictionary word.

The moderator who banned him is no longer active. I'm going to go ahead and drop the ban. This ban was almost three years ago and the description lacks proper evidence. If there's any further concerns go ahead and switch the ban to ct only instead of global. Xeno Gamers ~Thread Closed~

About level 60-80 depending on their skill level is the cutoff. It goes by 20k of points here Xeno Gamers - Players Veteran whitelists are available on request, but require especial character and a lot of patience with new players.

A few years ago veterans were telling rookies to get the fuck off the server. Now that the tables are turned, there's approximately three times more new players who reach veteran skill levels. Bootcamp isn't going to last forever, eventually they will be merged with the existing player-base, with an extremely good understanding how to play the game. Approximately 75 000 people owned the game before the sale, only one server got populated. If something doesn't change, you won't be playing Nuclear Dawn at all a year from now.

That's a bit of a overreach Vector. If they want the plugin to allow admins to act by voting, they will ask for it. I have no comment for anything in this thread as it doesn't concern myself. I will however constructively say, that if a vote is passed, it leaves no merit for any type of protest. Also, it works more effectively to solve instead of jail the issue, for both the moderator and targeted player. For many administrators (myself included), the first thing which comes to mind is jailing instead of solving. An hour vote silence can usually accomplish the same effect as a week server ban. ~Based on the post from @diabeetus ~

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+1 has been active on our Nuclear Dawn server for a few years now.

I've dealt with a lot of harassment on Nuclear Dawn in the past (at-least 10 to 15 separate players) and to this date have zero (harassment related) permanent bans and no repetition (this year) beyond three times (in some cases it's not possible to repeat #permsilence) from previous offenders. Here's that I think about this... Would like to congratulate @diabeetus for casting two week bans for the first time. These are actually going to move things forward faster, than those one day bans and demotions which just pat people on the back and say "don't do that". From my perspective two things can be done better when it comes to permanents. The consideration of silencing over casting a server ban when it comes to harassment. Gradually increasing the sentence on a week, month then permanent basis. Instead of just waiting for things to get out of control and casting a permanent. (jumping the gun) The goal being to try and correct the issue before jailing it.

When you say "he (@Vector) does harass the younger people"... Could you be a bit more descriptive as to how. (ie. the type of things said to them) From a neutral point of view, I think information is lacking is to the hows. Also, to strengthen the reasoning why a permanent ban is warranted... Was there any steps taken beforehand to demonstrate that harassment is unacceptable on our servers? For instance, my approach to harassment cases is usually a two week -> one month -> then permanent silence. This lets the offender know that harassment is unacceptable and gives an opportunity for correction.

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